No WAY, Kate! Good god, time flies.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Aug 16, 2017 3:57:49 pm PDT #15475 of 30002
Because books.
billytea - Aug 16, 2017 4:42:36 pm PDT #15476 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My baby started kindergarten and also lost her first tooth today.
That is one hard-core kindergarten.
sarameg - Aug 16, 2017 4:53:08 pm PDT #15477 of 30002
Alabama schools are so fucked. Many are keeping them inside during the eclipse, because liability. Despite some having school provided glasses. And this is at one of my nephew's whitey segregated schools (I'm glad they have access to the best schools in the area, I'm fucking sick of the moral calculus that is forced by white supremacy. And yes, my brother & I have talked about it. We agree he chose his kids and used his privilege over principles and that has its own reckoning.)
My nephews will be home, watching with glasses from Australian eclipse, because privilege.
Amy - Aug 16, 2017 4:57:52 pm PDT #15478 of 30002
Because books.
Well, this was amusing. Letter-perfect train wreck. [link]
Steph L. - Aug 16, 2017 6:40:01 pm PDT #15479 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Many are keeping them inside during the eclipse, because liability.
Gah, no, that's like that traumatic Ray Bradbury short story.
sarameg - Aug 16, 2017 6:50:43 pm PDT #15480 of 30002
That's EXACTLY what I cited on my brother's post. And, um, a few other places. That story/film haunts me (turns out, my brother, too.)
sarameg - Aug 16, 2017 6:52:09 pm PDT #15481 of 30002
All Summer in a Day.
I still don't forgive those kids and adults.
Gudanov - Aug 16, 2017 7:10:52 pm PDT #15482 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Ah man, I think one of my old high school friends has gone full alt-right. He reposted something that starts with 'Nazis are scumbags. However...' Yeah, the Neo-Nazis were the real victims, sure. Poor Nazis having their free speech suppressed by the violent left. If you have a Nazi and Klan rally (two great tastes that go great together) there's going to be a counter-protest. What the fuck is wrong with that? Nobody is going around arresting Nazis and KKK members for speaking out. I saw no indication that they were intimidated and shut down by the counter-protesters. There isn't any free-speech issue going on here. It's like it's so fucking important to smear liberals and the left with accusations of violence and anti-free speech that they can't bring themselves to just say Nazis and the Klan are bad, period. They have to fucking add, 'but the left is just as bad'. We cannot go down the road where a big group of people are seriously saying Nazis are bad, but... That is the fucking darkest road there is.
DebetEsse - Aug 16, 2017 7:10:56 pm PDT #15483 of 30002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I love making people read the "Children Are Dicks" story! Because it is so fucking accurate.
So, what is the socially appropriate response when a second cousin calls you "sexy" on your FB wall?
Steph L. - Aug 16, 2017 7:18:23 pm PDT #15484 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I still don't forgive those kids and adults.
Monsters.